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Pip510
DAFNE Graduate
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 4 posts |
Anyone that gets offered the option to do the course should go for it and not be worried about their age or whether it is worth it. |
pmason
DAFNE Graduate
Knox Community Health Service, Victoria 11 posts |
Couldn't agree more Pip510. I did the course in Melbourne (at Knox) last year at age 69. It taught me heaps and I'm still learning. |
Russ28
DAFNE Graduate
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 4 posts |
Without a doubt I did DAFNE here in UK when it first started here 17 years ago and just done it again as a refresher and the knowledge you gain is invaluable |
novorapidboi26
DAFNE Graduate
NHS Lanarkshire 1,819 posts |
17 years ago....wow, I was diagnosed just longer than that and I had no clue about any of it until 2007......not just DAFNE though, just carb counting and dosing.... was there MDI regimes back then...? |
Russ28
DAFNE Graduate
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 4 posts |
Like I say I was one of the first, in Sheffield at least and I think nationwide at that point majority of us I think were on set number of injections per day morning and evening for myself and strict carb counts for meals and snacks, any chocolate, biscuits snacking other than in the regime was big time cane my ass sin lol
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novorapidboi26
DAFNE Graduate
NHS Lanarkshire 1,819 posts |
So was it actually DAFNE back then if you couldn't really adjust your dose in the sense you can now.... |
Russ28
DAFNE Graduate
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 4 posts |
yes the set injections I was referring to was the pre DAFNE days although obviously things are constantly changing and new techniques etc but it was the DAFNE of the time. |
BAirlie
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 1 post |
I was doing dose adjustment informally for years before I attended the DAFNE course and my HbA1c has always been around 6.0. however, I learnt a lot on the course and, whilst I don't count cabs scientifically as a rule, I still fall back to DAFNE principles if my results go askew for more than a day or two. |